July 2017 Newsletter

This month we spoke to Marty O'Donnell, the widely celebrated composer for Halo and Destiny and 2016 G.A.N.G. Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. We discussed his new release Echoes of the First Dreamer and the process of composing for VR.

Echoes of the First Dreamer is now available here. There will also be a limited edition vinyl to be released 9/29.

Video game music publisher Materia Collective is excited to announce a partnership with Sheet Music Plus, the largest online retailer of sheet music. As of June 30th, Materia Collective's publishing catalog is available to arrangers around the world. This includes music from UNDERTALE, Owlboy, Frog Fractions 2, Fossil Echo, OneShot, Glittermitten Grove, Artemis, Graceful Explosion Machine, Spark the Electric Jester, Balthazar's Dream, Infinity OSV, and more.

SMP's innovative ArrangeMe program allows arrangers, transcribers, orchestrators, engravers, and other talented creators of sheet music to legally arrange and sell copyrighted sheet music.
This innovative partnership proliferates official+licensed video game sheet music, inspire musically-inclined video game fans, provides a resource for the next generation of musicians, and gives unprecedented self-expression for video game musicians.

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